{"id":25738,"date":"2020-05-19T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/nc-pdp-reject-jk-domicile-law\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:37:36","slug":"nc-pdp-reject-jk-domicile-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25738","title":{"rendered":"NC, PDP reject J&K domicile law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s aimed at changing demography, they say<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Conference (NC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday rejected the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020, and the J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate ( Procedure) Rules 2020, saying \u201cit was aimed at changing the demography of the erstwhile State of J&K\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An NC spokesman said the amended domicile law was made in exercise of power under the J&K Reorganization Act 2019, <\/strong>\u201cwhich stands challenged in number of petitions before the Supreme Court\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the constitutional validity of the Act impugned and the petitions under the consideration of the court, the Government of India, in tune with the universally accepted principle of \u2018constitutional proprietary\u2019, is under an obligation to desist from exercising powers under the impugned Act, including the power to promulgate domicile law and rules in question,\u201d the NC spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing it \u201cunacceptable\u201d and fraught \u201cwith widening the gap and inducing alienation\u201d, the NC said this order was aimed at disempowering the people of J&K and effecting a demographic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Unethical\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe order and procedure in question is also grossly inappropriate and unethical in as much as when the entire mankind, including the people of J&K, are in complete lockdown engaged in a battle of survival against Coronavirus, the Government of India has found this opportune time to push in the measures, palpably anti-people and unconstitutional\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expressing their stand first time since the Centre revoked J&K\u2019s special status in August last, the NC spokesman said the party had taken a principled stand on the floor of Parliament and outside that the decisions of August 5, 2019, taking away the special status and constitutional guarantees available to Jammu and Kashmir and dividing and downgrading the State are \u201cunconstitutional, unilateral as also against the federalism, the basic structure of the Constitution\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe post August 5 events in J&K also indicate massive public disapproval of the decisions in all the three regions. The party resolves to continue its struggle through all peaceful means for realisation of political aspirations of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,\u201d said the spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PDP said the order was aimed at effecting a demographic change of J&K and rejected the amended domicile law and the recent order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven a pandemic is no deterrent for the Government of India to continue with its disempowerment project for J&K. Orders like the one on domicile certificates don\u2019t settle anything, neither do they cover up the August 5 fraud. The demographic change and disenfranchisement will further complicate the J&K issue, which has claimed thousands of lives so far. This will be resisted through all democratic and peaceful means,\u201d said a PDP spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The J&K administration notified the domicile procedure on Monday, allowing eligible non-locals to apply for domicile certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With inputs from <\/em>The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s aimed at changing demography, they say The National Conference (NC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday rejected the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020, and the J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate ( Procedure) Rules 2020, saying \u201cit was aimed at changing the demography of the erstwhile State of J&K\u201d. An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}